I think I've reached the point on this project where I begin to procrastinate. It's the point where I have all the information I need (for the first part), and all that remains is to extract and collate. Unfortunately, this is where I usually being to drag, and so far, my MO hasn't changed with this project, despite my enthusiasm for it. That's not to say I'm doing nothing. I'm working on the music itself most days... even when the janitors are standing outside my practice room sloshing water around in the mop bucket-- I'm not dense, I just choose not to take hints.
Anyway, I've found performance history, opera history, Mozart history, etc. The only hang-up at the moment is finding info. on stylistic subtleties of the Classical period. So far none of my books/websites have gone into any detail about it. But, I can't say I've looked THAT hard yet. So, as soon as I find info. on things like those pesky little Mozartian fermatas, or what ornamentation is okay for say, the twentieth time I sing the same passage, I'll be all set.
My biggest question at the moment is why on earth a guy who's only written two other books, The Freudian Left, and The Modernization of Sex, has also written a book called Opera & Ideas: From Mozart to Strauss. It would seem to me he's a little out of his element, but maybe there's a side to this opera that I've yet to unearth...:S
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